Orlám
A son of Ailill and Medb, beheaded by Cúchulainn, who sends the head into the camp on his charioteer's back.
Overview
Cúchulainn finds Orlám's charioteer cutting chariot-shafts, trims the holly for him by stripping it through his fist, and asks where his master is. Then he goes to Orlám by the dike, kills and beheads him, shakes the head at the host, and sets it on the charioteer's back to be carried into the camp. The charioteer is Fertedil, and a stone breaks his head anyway once he has told Ailill and Medb the story.
Connections
Related characters
- Cúchulainn (beheads him by the dike)
- Medb (mother)
Connected to
- Ailill (son, whose charioteer Cúchulainn meets cutting shafts)
Places
Appears in chapters
Appears in
- Cúchulainn kills Orlám, a son of Ailill and Medb, on the hill and sends the charioteer back to the camp with the head on his back. At Támlachtai Orláim. In Chapter V: ‘Death death!’.